At first we thought the road was being shaken by a heavy lorry, but then my uncle said it was an earthquake. |
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His uncle who has a furniture shop has allotted a table space outside the shop to help him operate from there. |
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My uncle was a gruff but affectionate character who wore a beret, blue coveralls and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes. |
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Mike handed his uncle a large wrench and Adam got down onto the floor, and began to loosen the pipe under the sink. |
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Before World War II, the single mother remained within her family circle, where a grandfather or uncle could become a substitute father. |
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Fortunately his uncle was piggish enough to drop the subject for the moment in favor of the new sandwiches. |
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After her uncle puts the make on her she takes off on her own using her feminine wiles to make it to the top. |
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But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon. |
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Meanwhile, Ed tries to convince Joel to treat his ailing uncle Anku, a medicine man uninterested in the services of a western doctor. |
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I shook my head and locked myself in the bathroom to take a shower, hoping my crazy, lunatic uncle would let us out before then. |
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It was designed by J. A. Roosevelt, the uncle of FDR, and was considered to be the fastest ice yacht of its time. |
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I suggested that perhaps he could go to the dog track with his uncle and take a chance. |
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Originally it was a country store run by my great uncle Sydney Duncan, my grandmother's brother. |
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His father's cousin, the son of his great uncle the judge, responded to the news with barely concealed resentment. |
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My uncle works in a children's bookshop in London, and has a fantastic flat full of books of all types. |
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She has moved to New York to live with her uncle Eddie after a period in a rehabilitation center out west. |
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A very old memory flashed through my mind when, as a young boy, I was talking to an uncle just back from the war. |
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The upper-class twit is too feather-brained to succeed in management, so his shifty uncle gets him a job as a worker in his missile plant. |
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Assuming you don't have a rich uncle or a generous sugar daddy to fund your projects, a sensible alternative is the desktop studio. |
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The driving was hellacious on those traffic-choked streets, but my uncle always gave us a bonus for the extra hassle, so it wasn't all bad. |
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With these books, her uncle hoped to quench her desire for adventure, but he only increased it. |
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Marlborough mace bearer Bob Dobbs is a great traditionalist, right down to following in the footsteps of his late uncle Fred. |
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Both her father and uncle are dead, and under Taliban law women are not allowed to work or even leave the house unescorted by a man. |
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My uncle would go to the auction over at Logan County Stockyards on the edge of Booneville and get a couple of shoats. |
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Her uncle cut off all relations with her parents, who supported her decision to enter the academy. |
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Her uncle followed and once they reached the house, he locked the gate behind them. |
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He is more like your friendly neighbourhood uncle with a passion for sports. |
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My dad's uncle Johnny Boland came home and brought us this old record player and a scatter of records. |
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Their uncle remained in Dundee and the sisters would go to great lengths to avoid him, rarely attending family gatherings if he was there. |
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Her father, uncle and Fats Waller-loving grandmother all nurtured her passion for jazz piano, and family singalongs were a regular event. |
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My uncle Larry is a birder and the way he writes about birding makes me think it is something I will eventually do as well. |
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Her has learned from his uncle the black art of doing the deal and has made a bob or two on the way. |
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The loopy Loudspeaker of the House has become Washington's version of the crazy uncle your family has to keep up in the attic. |
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The uncle heaved a deep breath and the breath comes out in a light green misty colour. |
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The boy's uncle described his nephew as naughty, like his father, but a crackerjack in school. |
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After being orphaned, he's living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin, all of whom are vile and nasty to Potter. |
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But in retrospect that was because my uncle and cousin epitomise disorganisation and, much as I love them, laziness. |
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Every night after dinner my parents would sit and talk about this uncle or that aunt, talking about their individual and collective pasts. |
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He told me that he thought his uncle was one of the world's last gentlemen, in the true sense of a man of gentle behaviour and manners. |
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On Sunday my uncle organized a big family lunch in honour of my graduation. |
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I certainly oversold the enthusiasm my dear wife would feel for hosting an uncle she'd never met. |
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He liked dropping in and being treated as the visiting uncle who'd sit miserably by the fireside. |
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He has come to the hill station with his uncle and his ailing mother to recoup the failing health of the latter. |
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Her uncle always possessed a materialistic streak to his character, even when it came down to breaks between appointments. |
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Essie Mae grew up mainly with an aunt and uncle in a steel mill town not far from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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I tried to worm the answers out of William, who usually communicated with my uncle through a secure and private line. |
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My uncle turns, glances at me, the sun from behind the clouds casting lights and darks across his lean face. |
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My uncle reminded my grandfather of my father's low opinion of his life's work. |
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He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence. |
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Indeed, they are also taking on the role of the uncle or auntie, ticking off youngsters who are indulging in a spot of horseplay in the street. |
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Needless to say, my uncle is no call boy or gigolo, but a respected general practitioner. |
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David had to postpone any college plans he may have had when his uncle died suddenly. |
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Then you must know that I have a devilish rich uncle in the East Indies, Sir Oliver Surface, from whom I have the greatest expectations. |
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He also agreed he told police his uncle had owned a 12-bore double-barrelled shotgun at a previous address and was very proud of the gun. |
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A niece had suddenly appeared from nowhere and said that it was a disgrace that her uncle had been neglected. |
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He was advised and helped by his uncle Charles Wheatstone who invented the piece of electrical apparatus known as the Wheatstone bridge. |
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We had basically no idea where we were going, we were just with my uncle and my aunt and our cousins. |
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He went to Roumania where his autocratic uncle drilled him in politics and duty. |
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We gave our rep a quick call to complain, but it became apparent the only way to go home was to cry uncle on the radio. |
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Her aunt and uncle understood and sympathized with her mother, feeling bad that someone in their family suffered a divorce. |
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Ernesto is seen as preening and shallow, almost sadistically delighting in his uncle Pasquale's discomfort, for all the ardency of his love. |
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It is difficult to plough the land and I have no older children and no uncle to help me. |
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David says his aunt and uncle were killed as they tried to escape and their bodies were mutilated. |
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During the late 1940s I remember helping my uncle to search for Colorado beetles in his potato patch. |
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The site will also have information on the local scene, including questions and answers and an agony uncle page. |
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He comes off very much as a loved but sheltered little boy, with his exposure to his uncle Terry giving him his first real taste of life. |
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Mr. Woodhouse will be happy to have the boys temporarily under his care, because he thinks their father and uncle are too rough with them. |
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Jenny Benet and her archaeologist uncle hunt for a legendary buried pyramid. |
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Coby's great uncle tightened the cinch and put a boot in the little mare's saddle stirrup. |
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When they reached the border the uncle warned the nephew to keep his trap shut and let him do the talking. |
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His uncle is retired from the air force, and his step-father was in the army. |
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The name of my great uncle is engraved on the war memorial in Radcliffe, opposite what was the town hall. |
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He comes to the counting house to wish Scrooge a merry Christmas and invite his uncle to dine with himself and his wife on Christmas Day. |
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My dad's best man was his closest friend, Rocky, who was basically an uncle to me. |
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Soames demonstrates his long-headedness by refusing to give his uncle Roger legal advice for free. |
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He's the uncle of the kid who got killed in Germany under mysterious circumstances by a far right group. |
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His uncle was stationed in command of the imperial naval base at Misenum, on the north-west extremity of the Bay of Naples. |
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Stephen was brought up at the court of his uncle Henry I, becoming one of the wealthiest of the Anglo-Norman magnates. |
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His uncle used to import reggae and dancehall singles and distribute them to specialist shops. |
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Parliament selected a regency council that excluded the king's uncle and leading lord, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. |
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He was succeeded by his uncle Malarangiah, who encouraged traders and merchants from different parts of India to settle in Bangalore. |
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Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle learn that Darcy is, according to his housekeeper, a kind, generous, good-tempered man. |
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Her uncle had been kind enough to let them live in his house as long as they remained servants in the house. |
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I hurried to the graveyard at the edge of town, where I found Tortola's uncle shoveling damp earth over her coffin. |
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In 1982, the NFL finally cried uncle and recognized the quarterback sack as an individual statistic. |
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But the real hit of the night was the card from my aunt, uncle and cousins. |
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Then, relating the criminal conduct of Hamlet's uncle and his mother, the ghost importunes Hamlet to revenge it. |
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He lives a miserable life, tormented by his aunt and uncle and his spoiled cousin. |
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His father had dropped dead of a heart attack and a 28-year-old uncle suffered the same fate. |
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Her uncle had become quite a genius with bacteria and microbiology as gross as the subject is. |
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But I have been told by a Greek friend about an uncle of hers, a priest, for whom katharevousa was the natural medium of expression. |
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Carey may have won the opening skirmish, but the Europeans aren't crying uncle yet. |
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Today I went over to my gramps ' place to have dinner with them, and this uncle was staring at me. |
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My aim is to bring my great uncle back and have a reburial with full military honours in Agecroft Cemetery. |
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Nodding firmly, Junko casually tossed the dress back into the box and followed her uncle into the kitchen. |
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The candidate writes an agony uncle column which focuses on tax and benefit changes. |
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He became agony uncle to thousands of boys who sought his advice on broken voices, bad breath, and the propriety of using tinted writing paper. |
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My uncle had a change of heart about weekending with the chairman of the board. |
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My uncle has an affinity for Hawaiian floral print shirts and Bermuda shorts. |
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Last week he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators. |
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Laws are implemented rigorously, and punishment is severe and exemplary, and it doesn't matter who you are or who your uncle is. |
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Manda knew he couldn't have heard the conversation because her uncle once told her the study was soundproof. |
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He raised another eyebrow when he saw his uncle sling his brawny arms around the slender human's shoulders to pull her close to his side. |
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I am a cacographer, though both of my uncle and aunt are calligraphers, and my mother is a painting teacher. |
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But the good bit was, my uncle and aunty were there, and they snuck us into the VIP area. |
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Put off by bickering between his father and uncle over the family business, Alan went his own way. |
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By the time I had begun frying the bacon and scrambling the eggs, my uncle had joined me in the kitchen. |
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He was also a doting uncle who could always be depended upon to looking after his treasured nieces and nephews. |
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My granddad and uncle worked together in a sweet factory, so always had a healthy supply of coconut ice, jelly babies and sherbet dip. |
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Like his uncle Henry M Olmsted, he also wore whiskers in the Burnside style, but he started out as a young man with a down turned mustache. |
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Iwan said that his uncle had a number of medical complaints such as hepatitis and diabetes. |
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You may recall that he euchred Elizabeth's uncle into visiting a site where his experts said Elizabeth's body could have been found. |
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Mansa Magha only ruled for four years before he died and was replaced by his uncle Sulayman, who was the brother of Mansa Musa. |
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The town treats its older hotels like a doddering uncle who needs to be put away. |
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Another popular figure in myth and folk tales is Aligouran, a character in a series of adventures involving an uncle and his nephew. |
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The distraught uncle said the family was praying for the safe release of the teenager. |
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He was adopted by his uncle and that's about the extent of his personal life that is common knowledge. |
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Her uncle looked at his little niece, her face flashing orange and green and her fingers interlocking in awkwardness. |
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The prestige of the gentry remained high, since they often owned the advowson and had a cousin or an uncle in the rectory as well. |
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Although Mel's uncle had offered her temporary job in his company, Mel declined his offer because she wanted to test her own independency. |
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This act reminds me of a kindly uncle who offers to read the children a bedtime story, and chooses Dracula. |
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Next I wanted to send the pie to someone I knew liked shoo-fly pies, my uncle and his wife in Florida. |
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I had stared at my uncle to see if I could notice any resemblance between him and any of the men in the picture. |
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Abdullah Deghayes, an 18-year-old Briton whose uncle reportedly was a detainee at Guantanamo, died fighting in Syria on Monday. |
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He saw one of my handmade laundry baskets, and he remarked that it reminded him of a miniature version of the boats, or coracles, his uncle once had built in Ireland. |
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Then I continued to say that papa was at work, and wouldn't be back until late, my uncle and grandpapa were with friends, and Kip was with a friend. |
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An uncle and his family resided in another house and his aunt and her brood in a third. |
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In an awkward scene, Frodo speaks with his uncle about an ambiguous adventure he had long ago. |
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I know your great uncle Donald Duart Maclean was part of the Cambridge Five and was a double agent for the Soviets. |
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Cantillon quickly built up a successful banking business and paid off the debts of his bankrupt uncle despite the very chaotic financial conditions in France. |
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Nothing in his uncle Gaius so excited his envy and admiration as the fact that he had in so short a time run through the vast wealth which Tiberius had left him. |
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Kim Jong Un, who assumed power on the death of his father, had given uncle jang nearly free rein to handle relations with Beijing. |
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For much of the film, Emily courts embarrassment with wheedling, flirtatious attempts to stop the girl's uptight uncle from taking her back to the States. |
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So was it simply the reports of the purging of the uncle which persuaded them to change their minds? |
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He is proud of his role as agony uncle to a new generation of artists. |
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My great-grand uncle became a dispenser of retributive justice. |
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It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London blitz was irritating. |
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His uncle always buys him and his brother chocolate, but it feels empty. |
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Some children live with their uncle and aunt, some live with their grandparents. |
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According to his nephew, the sudden demise of his uncle was a shock to the family, as he seemed to be in good health during the election on Monday. |
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James exploited both the weakness of his own ecclesiastical hierarchy and the papacy's fear that he might follow his uncle Henry VIII in repudiating Rome altogether. |
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Like a crazy, drunk uncle shooting an epileptic dog because he has fleas, the current GOP shuns him for all the wrong reasons. |
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Next to Kim Jong-un were two other prominent Communist Party officials, his uncle Jang Song-taek and RI Yong-ho, head of the army. |
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My uncle and mother were arguing, their voices held in hushed whispers. |
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Last night the country's favourite agony uncle insisted that it was the power of radio and the nationwide spread of listeners that empowered people. |
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And the Kaiser was unwise to sneer that his uncle Edward VII went yachting with Thomas Lipton, the purveyor of bacon and tea to the urban consumer. |
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I will hound that poor excuse of a human being until he yells uncle or stops posting vapid, unproven horse nonsense that all of you seem to believe. |
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However, it is known that he had an anti-Nazi uncle in Salzburg, who owned land that would have provided an ideal drop zone for the Foxley sniper team. |
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My uncle had installed a skylight above my bed for my birthday last year. |
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In those days his dad and uncle Derek ran their business from Moorhouse Farm, delivering the milk from churns carried on horse-drawn floats with wooden wheels. |
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They managed to walk two kilometres to the relative safety of a Buddhist pagoda where he met an American Sri Lankan whose uncle owned a farm a further three kilometres away. |
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At that moment, her uncle was reversing his Lexus car out of the yard. |
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She and the two boys end up playing in this Arcadian garden, and the uncle cries when he gets back from a business trip and realises how wonderful everything is. |
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His first choice was shri Trimurti Bhavan in Ozone Park, a temple where his uncle is a priest. |
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My uncle drives a sleek black sports car, shiny as a beetle's shell. |
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I would even be somewhat placated if William would just try out some tartan trews such as those his uncle Edward has occasionally sported on formal occasions. |
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Soldera comes across like that uncle who, once affronted, crosses you off forever. |
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He becomes more and more peevish and tiresome, the archetypal boring jokey uncle of TV sit-corns, as his music becomes more and more unfathomably deep. |
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The young Jordanian pilot comes from a well-known military family in the kingdom and his uncle is a retired major general. |
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My uncle Doug quickly mowed down a field of sudan grass for extra parking, and my sister, Molly, helped the fire department maneuver the vehicles in and out. |
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The death of an uncle and a hedging competition are processed and recounted in due course. |
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The uncle told RTL radio Hauchard called his grandmother, ostensibly from Syria, on Nov. 2, for her birthday. |
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Her uncle weaves his way through the maze of chairs to reach her. |
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The problem is my aunt and uncle are always having a go at me. |
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Her eyes lit up as she saw her uncle and aunt, there to welcome her back into the real world. |
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The stubborn one-time peanut vendor may have to cry uncle again. |
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Back in the 1960's my favorite uncle taught me how to do the twist. |
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My uncle took up the challenge and bolted out to the rescue. |
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It matters not a bit to the agitators that great uncle Lazaro has two convictions for drunk driving, and the other, Delfin, has been in drunk-driving accidents. |
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I was abused by an uncle and ended up marrying into a family of gangsters. |
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He then rang his aunties, an uncle and his grandad who came to the rescue. |
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Most women, even the hip ones, know the dirty old uncle thing is too reminiscent of dirty old uncles to ever actually be cool. |
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It begins with a grieving boy beside his father's funeral pyre, who is claimed by a worryingly uncouth uncle and taken away to a grim new life of servitude. |
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As a child Mr Gawthorpe would often visit the park lodge where his uncle lived with his family, there to be plied with elderberry cordial in the summer. |
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When shelly Ramirez heard last week that her uncle Richard had died, she felt a huge sense of relief. |
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Prince Philip's uncle was an Admiral of the Fleet, former Viceroy of India and a Second World War hero who had survived having a ship blown up beneath him. |
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When you meet him, he's this very odd combination of literate Renaissance man and oafish uncle who says embarrassing things that you wish your girlfriend hadn't heard. |
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But he said that when he was 12, his uncle had a newsstand in Philadelphia, and he was reading the papers at a very young age. |
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The subversive, dadaist voice became more wacky uncle than bull in the china shop. |
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When you should have been dreaming of accession, and lopping off the heads of people you took a dislike to, mad uncle Richard was walling you up in the tower. |
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I had a brilliant extended family that included a very generous grand-aunt, uncle and grandparents, who made it their business to regularly rescue me from the jaws of poverty. |
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Although a crisp breeze had hung in the air when Caleb and his uncle had arrived at Cedar Grove, an azure sky had augured a morning of pleasant weather. |
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Cardin is the nephew of Senator Ben Cardin and ran with his uncle putting all of his political resources behind him. |
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He wouldn't be surprised if his uncle turned him out tomorrow. |
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Driving around the farm in his old pickup truck, my uncle would politely nod while I solved all the world's problems as only a loquacious 10-year-old can. |
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He has filled out considerably, seems to have aged at an exponential rate and, tonight, looks every inch the trendy uncle in his hooded top and combat trousers. |
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According to later medieval tradition, the three brothers were in Edinburgh when they were besieged by their paternal uncle Donald. |
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Robert fought at Halidon, where his uncle and former guardian, Sir James Stewart, was killed. |
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Anne was born in the reign of her uncle Charles II, who had no legitimate children. |
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There was a blond girl he liked in Three forks, where his uncle lived. |
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My uncle also had five guinea fowl to keep off the chicken hawks and sound an alarm if a fox approached the chicken house. |
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A COWBOY hat and sunglasses John Lennon gave to a Western-loving uncle are expected to fetch pounds 12,000 at auction next week. |
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His uncle Thomas Swift married a daughter of poet and playwright Sir William Davenant, a godson of William Shakespeare. |
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Conrad's poor health and his unsatisfactory schoolwork caused his uncle constant problems and no end of financial outlay. |
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However, his father and uncle disapproved of such a course and he left Bern without completing his Latin studies. |
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Taking his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski's advice, he convalesced at a spa in Switzerland. |
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Fellow North of 60 actor Dakota House, who played Teevee Tenia, looked upon Herman as an uncle or brother. |
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In the 13th century Ada, Countess of Holland was held prisoner on Texel by her uncle William. |
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According to biographer Melvin Urofsky, Brandeis was influenced greatly by his uncle Lewis Naphtali Dembitz. |
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He received his musical grooming from his father Ustad Azeem Khan and uncle Ustad Ismail Khan, both of whom were traditional Dhrupad singers. |
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After losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. |
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Authorities said the duo broke into two Saddletree Drive homes on June 28, then stole a vehicle from the boy's uncle and drove to Mexico. |
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At least she thought so until her uncle spilled the beans that Cole was an ex-Marine Recon. |
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His uncle allowed him to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at Heidelberg University. |
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In 1779, however, the fourth Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven died, leaving two sisters as female heirs, and an uncle as an heir male. |
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His uncle who worked at NASA, building guidance systems for the Apollo rockets, sent him some launch footage. |
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Another supporter of Matilda was her uncle David I of Scotland from the House of Dunkeld. |
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Landais reached an agreement with Richard to send back Henry and his uncle in exchange for military and financial aid. |
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One such film, The Ghost Ship, was shot on board the vessel where his uncle worked as a cook. |
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He was baptised at the age of five weeks and attended church, where his father and uncle contributed to music. |
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After his father's death in 1664, Purcell was placed under the guardianship of his uncle Thomas, who showed him great affection and kindness. |
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The girl shot herself in her head, as she could no longer take the sexual abuse from Teri's uncle Richard Hayes Stone. |
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Milton in fact stayed another seven months on the continent, and spent time at Geneva with Diodati's uncle after he returned to Rome. |
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In 1521, hoping to improve the boy's prospects, an uncle took him to Lisbon. |
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I have a morbid fear of countdowns and it all started when my uncle went to the doctors and was told his illness was so bad he was going to die. |
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He then gathered followers and went to Peterborough Abbey to be knighted by his uncle Abbot Brand. |
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My father and uncle searched for a tewit's nest and brought home two eggs which were beaten with milk and sugar for me to eat raw. |
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They basically thrive when oil prices go up, and now they are crying uncle when prices go down. |
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Simon owed a great sum of money to Thomas II of Savoy, uncle of Queen Eleanor, and named King Henry as security for his repayment. |
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The book follows Tom after he is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle in their gardenless flat. |
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The succession of a sorcerer was from father to son, or from uncle to nephew. |
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The new Princess of Cambridge instantly demoted her uncle Harry, 30, and great-uncle Andrew, 55, in the line of succession to the throne. |
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In the Netherlands, he consistently urged boldness on his superior, his uncle the Earl of Leicester. |
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All were arrested except Mercator who had left Leuven for Rupelmonde on business concerning the estate of his recently deceased uncle Gisbert. |
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In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, on the recommendation of his uncle Rev William Ayscough who had studied there. |
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He grew up in a family of Whig reformers who, like his uncle Josiah Wedgwood, supported electoral reform and the emancipation of slaves. |
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Hooker's uncle was able to obtain for Richard the help of another Devon native, John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury. |
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Sir Tristan is the namesake of the book and his adulterous relationship with Isolde, his uncle Mark's wife, is one of the focuses of the section. |
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Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit, used to visit her uncle Edmund Potter at his printworks in Dinting Vale. |
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He met his future wife, Mary Everest, there in 1850 while she was visiting her uncle John Ryall who was Professor of Greek. |
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Around 316 AD, Frumentius and his brother Edesius from Tyre accompanied their uncle on a voyage to Ethiopia. |
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His uncle was artist Roland Penrose, whose son with photographer Lee Miller is Antony Penrose. |
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A year later, his uncle Svyatoslav, offended by his ousting from Vladimir, went to the Horde to secure the throne for himself. |
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The local physician suggested the medical profession and Maugham's uncle agreed. |
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His widow, Catherine Woodville, later married Jasper Tudor, the uncle of Henry Tudor, who was in the process of organising another rebellion. |
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Striking exceptions were Topgay's legendary uncle Tenzing Norgay and his cousin Nawang Gombu. |
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Same with my uncle and cousins when their planes landed from Vietnam. |
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He rattles out a few topical jokes and then smarms over his guests like an embarrassing uncle at a wedding. |
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I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better. |
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Finally, on May 26 of the year 17, Germanicus celebrated a triumph for his victory over lower Germany and his uncle sent him off to the east. |
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My uncle was a presbyterian minister and my mother an elder. |
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But nothing beats that cup of kopi-o siu dai from the nearby kopitiam uncle who knows you best. |
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He marched towards England accompanied by his uncle Jasper and the Earl of Oxford. |
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Charlemagne and his uncle Bernard crossed the Alps in 773 and chased the Lombards back to Pavia, which they then besieged. |
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Neither his mother nor his uncle were prepared to support him, implying that they had not approved of the expedition in the first place. |
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Emin has often made use of found objects in her work from the early use of a cigarette box found in a car crash in which her uncle died. |
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We are going to send our son away to live with his uncle in America for a year. |
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In 1390, King Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince appointed his uncle John of Gaunt Duke of Aquitaine. |
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An uncle might be around to offer a spare bedroom, or a job at the plant, or the church might be there for guidance, for rootedness. |
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Power struggles between Bedford, his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and their uncle Cardinal Beaufort hampered the English war effort. |
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By using the utmost tact and persuasiveness, he was inducing his uncle to cough up very grudgingly a small quarterly allowance. |
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Her aunt is kind but her uncle frightens her with his authoritative demeanour. |
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Princely succession moved from elder to younger brother and from uncle to nephew, as well as from father to son. |
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Marco and his uncle Maffeo financed other expeditions, but likely never left Venetian provinces, nor returned to the Silk Road and Asia. |
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Although my uncle likes to travel, my aunt is a homebody, so he usually comes with us while she stays home with her cats. |
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Among my uncle Roger's farm servants, Esau Fletcher and Peter Patch came to the parsonage house. |
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My geographically challenged uncle stated that France is the capital of Paris. |
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Nothing gets an overly inquisitive auntie or an uncle with unpalatable political views off your back like a Boxing Day fixture. |
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That was the time when my uncle went to Tibet and I was learning the secrets of esotery from my second teacher Velibor Rabljenovich. |
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At first the uncle declined, but when a palki was sent for them, he and his nephew entered it. |
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Tristan's uncle eventually learns of the affair and seeks to entrap his nephew and his bride. |
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My uncle Ernest Tudor, who was an air-raid warden, had to dig us out after one particularly heavy raid. |
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Fenn announced that he reckoned he would be a double uncle if Harriet would let him. |
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He supported himself through crime for many years, before learning that he could inherit a fortune by murdering his uncle and cousin. |
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Sigmund Freud, was an uncle of the founder of modern public relations, Edward Bernays. |
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My uncle got roughed up by some corporate thugs after they caught him trying to unionize their workers. |
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My uncle gambled away his fortune, and now he hardly has a penny to his name. |
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Pauline's uncle bought the couple a house in Key West with a carriage house, the second floor of which was converted into a writing studio. |
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But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts. |
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Hawthorne's uncle Robert Manning insisted that the boy attend college, despite Hawthorne's protests. |
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They were the beautifulest boys I ever laid eyes on, and uncle sot great store by them. |
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This clearly shows that Pliny the Younger wanted to convey to Tacitus that his uncle was ever the academic, always working. |
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When the family bickered over the inheritance, Hallveig's sons, Klaeing and Orm, asked assistance from their uncle Gissur. |
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After his parents died, the boy's uncle was appointed as his guardian. |
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As per DNA reports, the Ashura blast victims were identified as Mukhtar Ali Soomro and his uncle Ali Muhammad Soomro. |
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Accordingly, their uncle Joshua Sergeant bought back some of the shares on behalf of the Darby children. |
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The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War. |
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Starley, who worked alongside his uncle and went on to found car company Rover. |
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Evan then spent time working for his uncle as a blacksmith's apprentice in Pontarddulais. |
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His uncle John Hooker was a success and served as the chamberlain of Exeter. |
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As Stefan prepared for his Bar Mitsvah in Vienna his uncle and aunt were buried quietly in Bordeaux. |
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His coming of age coincided with a civil war between his uncle Gaius Marius and his rival Lucius Cornelius Sulla. |
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Hemingway's uncle George was a Protestant medical missionary in Shensi Province, China. |
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The step-mother and uncle were sentenced to five years in jail last December on charges of assisting Diker carry out the crime. |
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Convinced that his uncle was a warlock, he rifled through his attic, looking for demonic artifacts. |
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His uncle is the legendary six string bass player and performer Abraham Laboriel. |
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So they had to take me from there in an ambulance.... I remember my dad and uncle used to call them meat wagons. |
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Having a world-renowned cryptozoologist for an uncle can result in some interesting holidays. |
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His mother married Henry VII's uncle Jasper Tudor, and his wardship was entrusted to the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. |
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Anyone who doesn't cry uncle after the first week will probably last the season. |
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Philip prepared for the contingencies with Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy, maternal uncle of Louis X's daughter and prospective heiress, Joan. |
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My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud. |
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The book opens with a preface describing his father and uncle traveling to Bolghar where Prince Berke Khan lived. |
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The main beneficiary was the victims' great uncle James Douglas, Earl of Avondale who became the 7th Earl of Douglas and emerged as the main power in the government. |
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Peacefully on 25th March 2011, aged 62 years, Grahame Lee, dearly loved brother of Iris, fatherlike uncle of James and Annee, also a brotherlike cousin. |
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Days after ordering the show trial and execution of uncle and former mentor Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un enjoyed a trip round the resort near the city of Wonsan. |
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Or, we can continue to start all over again following each troop rotation, until the Canadian government cries uncle and abandons our commitment to rebuilding Afghanistan. |
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Llywelyn supported his uncle in the savage fighting that followed. |
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Aled farms around 600 acres in Cardiganshire and North Pembrokeshire with his uncle and his wife, Hedydd and also runs a grain processing contracting business. |
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After Maugham's return to Britain his uncle found him a position in an accountant's office, but after a month Maugham gave it up and returned to Whitstable. |
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